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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "We are all interested in quality legislation. We are not interested in rabble rousing. Even if Hon. Nyikal and I were to be here ourselves, just the two of us, we will be the two last men standing and we are here for the love of legislation in this country. So, it does not matter. The rationale here is to make the correct reference in legislative practice to the National Treasury. That is number one. Secondly, it is to locate ministerial responsibility to a Cabinet Secretary. Hon. Kimunya has lobbied me on this and it is normal. He has asked me to drop this amendment on the basis that once you have referred to the National Treasury, which has been recognised by the Constitution, then now we know that there is somebody called the National Treasury and two, if the CS may, for one reason or the other, be away, then these responsibilities will not be done. I beg to differ. You have seen that the amendment by the Chair is about regulations. So, we now have regulations in the law. Two, we are dealing with approvals. These are ministerial functions of making regulations and approvals. Everybody who is dealing with these people must know, as an administrative law, who, therefore, has the ministerial responsibility of making that regulation. So, it does not matter if the CS is away. Even if that regulation is made by juniors, lawyers in his office or whoever, it becomes an appendage of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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